Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


-faris is said to consume nearly
NIFTY tons of snails in Sc ason.
An expedition will shortly be sent
out by Australia to test the whale fish
cry in the Antartic.
Vito Cercolone, who died recently
at Milan. left by will his entire fortune,
amounting to $3.50. 900, to King Hum
bert.
When the Prince of Naples visited
Leghorn recently. he took pains to call
on Manlio Garibaldi. a pupil in the
Naval Academy there.
According to official statistics
there are at present Is, 900 laundresses
in Paris. and about 10000, 900 francs
are yearly paid for laundry work.
Europe has $50 agricultural expert
ment stations, in which are employed
1000 men in investigating and devel-
oping agricultural science.
While excavating under house in
the Gumpendorfer strasse, Vienna,
some workmen have discovered stone
tablet with well-preserved inscription
of the reigns of the Emperors Trebo-
nianus Gallus and Volusianus.
Five thousand persons attended the
ball recently given by President Grevy
at the Elysee. There were seventy-five
thousand applications for tickets. The
Malagassy ENJOYS were the great curl
osity of the evening.
"A tree which, according to its
''rings," counted up an age of upward
of two thousand years, was felled re-
Gently IN the Livonian village of Koken-
berg, Germany, a species of juniper
tree. which had grown perfectly fat at
the top.
"A postman who died lately in
Germany had received pension for
fifty-seven years. The amount was
only about nine dollars per year, how
ever. He was disabled by an accident
soon after entering upon his duties,
but lived to the age of ninety-three
years.
The Duke of Leinster is about to
sell the bulk of his Irish estate to his
tenants, including the manor of May
nooth, which has been in his family al
most ever since the Conquest. It was
from the splendid old castle there, now
in ruins. that a pet monkey rescued the
heir of the Fitzgeralds on the occasion
of fire.
Some interesting historic animals
are the two horses which were attached
to the late Cars carriage when the
bomb exploded, and which are now
kept in the imperial stables. They are
badly SCARED, lame and, of course,
utterly useless; but they are given ten
der care by four grooms, are clothed
in silk and exercised, but never har-
messed. The carriage, which was in
jured, is on exhibition in glass case.
Last fall thirteen thousand pounds
of gunpowder were used in blasting
large rock in a quarry on Loeb Syne,
Scotland. AS soon as the powder had
exploded large picnic party was adj
mitted. and seven men died from
breathing the poisonous atmosphere,
of whose fatal nature the quarrymen |
were ignorant. An official investiga- !
ton was made of the circumstances,
which resulted in attributing the mel
ancholy mortality to the exhalations of |
the gunpowder.
: Some interesting facts relating to
the state of the newspaper press in the
British Indian Empire have been col
1ected for the India Office. During
5000. Uo vernacufar newspapers were
published in Bengal, an increase of them
on the total of the previous year. Of
these 6S journals seven are dailies. but
only one of them circulates over 1, 900
copies day. The circulation of one
weekly native newspaper is $4,000
copies. This is the highest on the list,
but the average print of the majority of
the weeklies is about 500. During 1885
the first two newspapers ever printed
in the Sindhi language appeared.